“After the speech he looked at us ironically and added softly: "Otherwise you would die". The words were icy but the tone like velvet, almost friendly.”

— Adolf Eichmann

Benjamin Murmelstein, Theresienstadt: Eichmanns Vorzeige-Ghetto, .

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German Nazi SS-Obersturmbannführer 1906–1962

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